The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-01-07
Vvattea-aorn 10 Grady

edg OF MS XlStence and talents. But
his time came at the New England
banquet, and he made good use of
It, aul ha7elng long been a public
force in Georgia; be Will hereafter
be known in propria persona. A man
of character and brains, like q city
that sits upon a hill, may not be hid
Mr.. Grady is fair type of the new
south. Whether the new south is all
that it ought to be has to be deter
mined, and whether the influence
and power which will develode them
selves with the developing career
Of Dir. Grady shall be good or i'll will
depend not alittIe upon the politicrl
theories and The philosophers Of bus
mess and life which that young gen
tIeman undertakes to propagate and
maintain. Ii adapting itself to the
conditions which the results of dis
astrous battle raised up, the new
south had much to un[earn; but, in
perusIng the lesson which fate set it
the wisdom and tho virtue were
still left it to mark and skip the pas
sages artfuIly slipped in by the evil
genus. which lies ever in wait to
tempt the weak and the poor. 1t
would be better for the new south
that Mr.. Grady had never been
born if be shall give his shining abil-
lilies to the work of picking up and
restoreing the nncIean pages, which
the better instincts of the southon
people let fall to the ground,
The future Of the south is such a
problem IS the world has nowhere
to deal with. All the forces which
confront statesmen and confuse
economists in other lands are here;
aud to them must be added two adj
diIonal forces, unknown elsewhere,
tee negro popuiation-making race
queston-and the republican party
making a sectional issue and
comp.icating the race question.
Amid this chaos, fortune seems for
tue moment blinded and truth Is
often staggered, and the fair god
mother hec5eil-fOr all heI midwjfe's
experience and salfsuficIency-
stands uncertain whether the child is
to be white or black!
1t Is a good rule Of life to keep ever
in the foreground those simple, or
ganic principles which lie at the
foudation Of our moral nature.
There is sPriuging up IN the south a
school Of thought which rejects them.
Over this school blazes the legend;
Get rich; honestly if you can; but
get itch, > 1t is a device Of The deqil.
The fools who adopt it never get
ricl. The rogues who begot it take
their chance OF cheating another f
the gallows in this world and Of 60
ing TO hell in they next, taking the
penit7ntiary for a convenient half
way house, when the have not
through ticket to Canada direct. The
argument runs somewhat thus: The
north has enriched herself robbing us
why should the stealing stop just as
we are ready TO go into buisness?'
S all the old robber theories, which
have amassed unequal and ilI-9ained
fortunes III the east, arc dinned into
ear o. the honest. but i'm poveaished
south. Already Geogia has her ST.
mon Cameron; and organs OF the
! Cameronian school Of politics--a bun
ko affair in which q few men get 1t
all and the many pay the piper-are
s2ringing up in Tennessee and Al
abamama. Mr.. Grady should throw
himself across the bride path Of this
highway fallacy. Ifhe does not,
it will Presen Iy become thorough
fare and if he lives long enough he
will see the day when the progeny
OF the hes. blood 0. the south will feed
the factories which grind out squalor
to millions and millions to masters as
cruel and rapacicus as. ever trod New
England socl; and public life as de-
spotIcally veral corrupt as that OF
Pennsylvania; and all the beauty
the virtue and the grace of The old
south, press beneath the iron-heel Of
an unteehng Plutocracy, which
/ breaches only the doctrine of greed
and pelf, and worships no god except
that 0 money,
Assuredly, the new south has much
to learn. To labor and to save, to
be patient and tolerant, to live and
let live, are the important items iu
+ tins lesson; not to seek short cuts to
sudden wealth, or 10 take lottery
chances in the devils auction. We
have the natiue resources to univer-
sal independence If they are left ac-
cessi bic to tie people, and are not
| gobbled up and monopollzed by
corporations which begin by dissem-
mating false doctrines to end in slaugh-
tering the sheep they have lLred
into their shameless. In the east the
story is written oyer every hillside.